I just got a Helios 44-2 in the mail today, attached to an old Zenit SLR. I checked the lens a little bit on the Zenit and it worked fine. The aperture ring is a little wobbly/loose, but it doesn't move unless you're moving it, so not a big deal. The focus rings worked fine. And the glass looks fantastic.
So I unscrewed it from the Zenit, no problem, screwed it into my adapter and attached it to my GH1, and the focus rings absolutely refused to move. They're stuck at .5M. And when I say stuck, I mean STUCK.
My first thought was that it was my new adapter (I've heard of cheap adapters interfering with the movement of the focus rings), so I took it off my camera, took it off the lens, and still nothing. It's not moving.
I'm guessing now that when I removed the lens from the Zenit, I must have been holding onto the focus ring rather than the mount (it's an M42 screwmount). It's not like it came off hard or anything, though...I definitely wouldn't think I twisted on it hard enough to actually break anything.
Did I completely just break my new lens? Or could I take it apart and fix it? I mean, at this point it's not working, so I'm not afraid to take it apart if there's a chance I could fix it. But I don't want to waste my time if it's beyond repair.
So I unscrewed it from the Zenit, no problem, screwed it into my adapter and attached it to my GH1, and the focus rings absolutely refused to move. They're stuck at .5M. And when I say stuck, I mean STUCK.
My first thought was that it was my new adapter (I've heard of cheap adapters interfering with the movement of the focus rings), so I took it off my camera, took it off the lens, and still nothing. It's not moving.
I'm guessing now that when I removed the lens from the Zenit, I must have been holding onto the focus ring rather than the mount (it's an M42 screwmount). It's not like it came off hard or anything, though...I definitely wouldn't think I twisted on it hard enough to actually break anything.
Did I completely just break my new lens? Or could I take it apart and fix it? I mean, at this point it's not working, so I'm not afraid to take it apart if there's a chance I could fix it. But I don't want to waste my time if it's beyond repair.